Australia, sentence 24
From Wikipedia, «Australia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
When the Dutch began visiting and mapping Australia in the 17th century, they called the continent New Holland.
Who acts: Dutch, Australia · What happens: begin, visit, map, call · To what, where: Australia, continent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Australia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dutch, Australia), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dutch | det |
| 3 | Dutch | Dutch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 called | advcl |
| 5 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 began | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mapping | cc |
| 7 | mapping | map | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 visiting | conj |
| 8 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mapping | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 century | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 century | det |
| 11 | 17th | 17th | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 12 century | amod |
| 12 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mapping | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 called | nsubj |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 continent | det |
| 17 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | obj |
| 18 | New | New | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Holland | amod |
| 19 | Holland | Holland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 continent | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Dutch | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | visit | gerund | the Dutch not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | map | gerund | the Dutch not said here | Australia | century | tree rules | |||
| 4 | call | past | Australia | the continent New Holland | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent continent=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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